Doesn’t CrowdStrike have more important things to do right now than try to take down a parody site?

That’s what IT consultant David Senk wondered when CrowdStrike sent a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice targeting his parody site ClownStrike.

Senk created ClownStrike in the aftermath of the largest IT outage the world has ever seen—which CrowdStrike blamed on a buggy security update that shut down systems and incited prolonged chaos in airports, hospitals, and businesses worldwide…

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    told Ars that he has no plans to move ClownStrike back to Cloudflare’s hosting service. Instead, he responded by suggesting that Cloudflare update its abuse-reporting system to confirm receipt of counter notices, build a web portal where users can track abuse reports,

    Good suggestions

    and perhaps most significantly, revoke CSC’s ability to submit abuse reports as a penalty for sending a bogus takedown

    Pretty sure they can’t. DMCA has strict rules that providers must follow to avoid liability.